Gaozhuang Village is a small village, with more than 1,000 people.

To the north of Gaozhuang Village is Zhouzhuang Village, and to the south is Wangzhuang Village.

Zhouzhuang Village and Wangzhuang Village are both small villages, with only about five or six hundred people.

In the past, when the production team was produced, the three villages were one brigade, that is, one administrative village.

There are two squads in Zhouzhuang, four squads in Gaozhuang, and two squads in Wangzhuang, for a total of eight squads. Now when the old people in the village talk about people from other villages, they still call them "several teams", for example, Lu Xiaole's family is in the sixth team.

In the mid-to-late 80s, the three villages were separated, and each established its own village branch and village committee, becoming three villages.

Wangzhuang's economy is relatively backward, except for a few small furniture factories in the village, there is no other pillar industry, and the villagers can only go out to work if they want to earn money.

Gaozhuang is the wealthiest, and in addition to the brick and tile factory, there are several furniture factories of considerable scale.

Although Zhouzhuang Village is slightly worse than Gaozhuang, it is not much different, most of the villagers in this village are engaged in livestock sales, although the village smells bad, but the villagers' pockets are bulging.

In Zhouzhuang Village, there is a well-known matchmaker in ten miles and eight townships, known for her clever tongue and "high matchmaking rate", because her husband's surname is Zhou, others call her Zhou's matchmaker.

When Lu Xiaole returned home, Mrs. Zhou was at his home.

Although the three villages are separated, they are still sharing a school, Lu Xiaole and Zhou Qiaomei, the daughter of Zhou Matchmaker, are still classmates in primary school and junior high school, and he often goes to the other two villages to play, so he knows Zhou Matchmaker, and Zhou Matchmaker also knows him.

Mrs. Zhou is a middle-aged woman in her fifties, although she is a rural woman, she is very cleanly dressed, with short hair, a round face, slightly dark skin, and a rural woman's pungent and sharp energy.

In addition to farming, she also helps her husband with some livestock sales, but her greatest energy is still used as a matchmaker.

Since she said that the matchmaker needed to go everywhere, she was too tired to ride a bicycle, and the car could not be sold, so she bought a women's Mulan motorcycle.

There are not many middle-aged women who can ride motorcycles, and Mrs. Zhou is one of them.

If the young men and girls from several surrounding villages come home and see a motorcycle parked in the courtyard, they will guess that Mrs. Zhou has come to matchmaking.

When Lu Xiaole entered his small courtyard, he saw a motorcycle parked in the courtyard, and the hearty voice of a middle-aged woman came from the hall, so he knew that Mrs. Zhou was coming.

Last night, his grandfather told him that Mrs. Zhou had proposed a protégé to him, a girl from Maji Village, more than ten miles away from the south, and she would go on a blind date tomorrow.

Lu Xiaole thought that Mrs. Zhou was here to finalize this matter.

The footsteps of Lu Xiaole entering the courtyard were heard by the two people who were talking in the hall, and they looked out.

The two of them, one is a grandfather, and the other is Mrs. Zhou.

Mrs. Zhou "met three points familiarly", although she was not very familiar with Lu Xiaole, she stood up and greeted her very warmly:

"Yo, Xiaole is back!"

Lu Xiaole smiled and said, "Auntie, you're here." ”

According to the seniority in the village, Lu Xiaole should call Mrs. Zhou Matchmaker, although they are not in the same village now, but they used to be a brigade, and the villagers were very familiar with each other, so there is also a "village generation".

Mrs. Zhou smiled, turned her head to look at Grandpa Lu, and said with a smile:

"Uncle, Xiaole has grown up so fast in the past two years, he has become a handsome guy, don't worry, there is no left of such a handsome guy."

Grandpa Lu's face was a little heavy, and he couldn't laugh, but he reluctantly laughed twice, and said in a hoarse voice:

"Aunt He, you sit."

Mrs. Zhou sat down again.

Lu Xiaole also entered the hall.

The courtyard of Lu Xiaole's house is an ordinary farmhouse with five bays.

This yard is a new yard just built five years ago, brick house, the original old yard and old house have not been stripped off, grandpa originally lived in the old yard, after Lu Xiaole's parents went out to work, grandpa moved to the new yard to watch the family and accompany his grandson.

The three rooms in the middle are a large space, two are halls, that is, the living room, there is a small door on one side of the hall, and there is one inside, which is the bedroom of Lu Xiaole's parents.

Lu Xiaole lived in the east ear house outside the hall house, and his grandfather lived in the west room in the ear house.

The two-bay hall is very spacious, although the furniture is still the old furniture, but it is very clean, there is a landscape painting hanging on the wall of the door, and some photo frames are hung next to it, which is a photo of Lu Xiaole and his parents.

In the middle of the hall are three wooden sofas, one long and two short, and in the middle is a wooden coffee table, which is the craftsmanship of Lu Xiaole's father.

Cut watermelons and melons have been placed on the coffee table to entertain Mrs. Zhou.

Lu Xiaole sat down on the sofa next to him and enthusiastically invited Mrs. Zhou to eat melons:

"Auntie, eat melons."

Mrs. Zhou smiled: "I'm full, I'm supporting, I'll eat later." Xiaole, where have you been? ”

"I just went to the city to take pictures and want to get a driver's license."

"I heard from my uncle, you are now working in Song Chaoying's furniture factory, how are you doing?"

"It's okay. Auntie, are you here for tomorrow's blind date? ”

Mrs. Zhou's face showed a trace of embarrassment, and she coughed dryly twice.

Grandpa sighed beside him and said, "Xiaole, Ma Ji that, people don't agree." ”

Lu Xiaole was stunned: "I haven't gone to the photo yet, I haven't seen anyone, why don't they agree?" ”

Mrs. Zhou said: "I don't know who gave birth to a son who has no eyes, said bad things about your family, and picked up the matchmaker!"

Pickpocketing is the act of sabotaging blind dates----

Both men and women, in the process of the matchmaker mentioning the blind date, have not yet met, or have already met, but have not yet married, they will inquire about each other's family history and reputation through relatives and friends, such as whether the family is rich, whether there are patients, whether the parents have a good reputation, whether the young man is willing to do it, whether the girl is serious, and so on.

In this process, as long as someone says something bad, the blind date will be blown out, and even if you are engaged, as long as you are not married, you are in danger of being divorced.

And those who say bad things are "pickpockets", because of this kind of pickpocketing, they will be scolded, so they usually don't know who it is.

Although Lu Xiaole has no interest in the blind date, and he doesn't have any hope, but the first blind date, before he went to the blind date, he was "pickpocketed", he was really unhappy in his heart, and wanted to know what the reason was.

"Auntie, what did Ma Ji say over there? How do you pick up the media? ”